Road Rage: You and Your New Agile Teammates
by Elena M Yatzeck, 15 January 2012 | The Agile Blogosphere
This post is from Pragmatic Agilist by Elena M Yatzeck. Click here to see the original post in full.
As you join your teammates in your sparkling new agile team room, and you all do your best to quickly "become agile," I guarantee that despite being surrounded by brightly colored index cards and sticky notes, you may sometimes feel...angry. Here you are, supposedly liberated to be "self managing," out from under the collective thumbs of your corporate hierarchy, and you realize that you are reminded briefly of the Lord of the Flies.
Your agile pilot has quickly, as promised, surfaced all possible risks and issues to the project. That idea sounded good on paper. In real life, you have ripped the comforting blanket of denial from yourselves, and now, rather than waiting for the UAT team to take the bulk of your business users' thwarted fury eighteen months from now, you already see problems right at the beginning of the project, where you've never seen them before:
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